Exploiting the system: Every American wants to go to college. Prioritizing higher education, our country creates many avenues to access it. At first, this seems endearing, everyone in our country strives to better themselves. However, people like Rick Singer take advantage of this paradox. Due to the competitive nature of our admissions system, the elite always win. This is because wealth is power, consequently empowering the already privileged. We see this idea portrayed in the movie “Operation Varsity Blue,” where we watch the discrete college admission scheme unravel. In the movie, we follow the main character Rick Singer as he creates the biggest college scheme prosecuted by our Department of Justice. He worked from the ground up, previously …show more content…
Rick knew this market, catering to their want to get their kids into a good school. Being in the sports admissions sphere, he knew what colleges were looking for. Knowing this, he created an avenue called “the side door method”. The side door method fed on wealth, granting higher chances of admission, the higher the bribe. We see this with Devine Sloane, who was “the second parent sentenced in the college admissions scandal, for misrepresenting his son as a member of Italy’s youth national water polo team”(Ormseth). By subsidizing Rick Singers organization, Sloane bribed colleges to take his son. However, this is not the only case. Clearly, these avenues create a bias towards rich people. Moreover, Ivy Leagues are biased towards rich families due to their influence. We see this in the amount of rich families getting into ivy leagues, in comparison to middle class families. For instance, Olivia Jade, daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli. Olivia Jade was a social media sensation, posting to her thousands of followers on Youtube. Having no previous academic experience, it was suspicious when suddenly she was accepted into University of Southern